Category: long story short

  • Digestif

    Digestif

    I lay awake a while back having returned recently from Paris by way of Dublin pondering why we sleep, a question I thought long ago routed by the much deeper why do we wake at all, when it came to me from that other brain: we sleep to digest. This website apparatus also benefits from…

  • Let there be music

    I’m embedding this Joe Russo’s Almost Dead show (which comes very highly recommended from musicologist Jake Cohen) into my blog here to illustrate how “badging out” works as an open strategy for distributing content socially:

  • Hunkered down

    So here I am, locked down in the back room (well, it’s kind of in the front of the house but nevermind) while B hosts the weekly Saturday morning ladies’ breakfast for the women who live in our little neighborhood. How did I end up in some bizarro west coast version of a Cheever novel?

  • Truth in advertising

    Truth in advertising

    new ad shows off the iPhone’s flexibility.

  • Simple versus complex

    Simple versus complex

    Interesting how the Goog ranks results about carbohydrates in terms of authority: NutritionMD.org fitday.com verydayhealth.com diabetes.about.com nlm.nih.gov cdc.gov briancalkins.com Bodybuilding.com livestrong.com health.harvard.edu I recommend numbers 5, 6, and 10.  

  • Gratitude unbound

    Gratitude unbound

    I have a lot to be grateful for.